Campbell sets step 1 and 2 filter for MD student.

[You shall know the Truth]

This program should get AT Still's "banner-to-the-breeze" pole out of their ass.

Ah hahahahahahahahahahahha, it was around 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue?

 

[MADD!!!]

This thread is blown out of proportion. This is a clear signal to IMG’s/FMG’s to not apply here. Some IMG IM programs do the same thing (ex. Easton Hospital says 235+ step 1 and usmle only to ward off DO’s AND USMD’s with the assumption that if you even did have a score that high you wouldn’t want to go there anyways).

 

[alprazoslam]

Yeah I do not feel bad for the MDs getting blocked out.

I mean I am sure Harvard and the ivys in certain programs have a 310 USMLE cutoff for DOs. lol

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

For Ventura, is it saying you have to have 600 and 250?

Or 600 or 250?

 

[DrStephenStrange]

HAHA, Interesting. Looks like the old AOA programs aren't playing around with the merger approaching.

 

[OddNath]

Forgive my ignorance- don’t most DO students take both COMLEX and USMLE? If that’s the case, then wouldn’t this 250 step 1 cutoff hurt the DO students as well?

And, after 2020, will *all* DO students have to take step 1? Something I haven’t really understood.

 

[OddNath]

And- “A minimum of 5 years is required for graduation”— huh? 5 years of IM residency? Or 5 years of med school?

This entire announcement is so comically WTF

 

[nimbus]

This thread is blown out of proportion. This is a clear signal to IMG’s/FMG’s to not apply here. Some IMG IM programs do the same thing (ex. Easton Hospital says 235+ step 1 and usmle only to ward off DO’s AND USMD’s with the assumption that if you even did have a score that high you wouldn’t want to go there anyways).

Exactly. This is the first time I ever heard of Campbell and I’ve been in medicine for a long time. It is a nonissue for USMD’s because most are not aware of Campbell.

 

[DrStephenStrange]

Exactly. This is the first time I ever heard of Campbell and I’ve been in medicine for a long time. It is a nonissue for USMD’s because most are not aware of Campbell.

Except other old AOA programs are doing similar things.

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[Dr.Bruh]

Forgive my ignorance- don’t most DO students take both COMLEX and USMLE? If that’s the case, then wouldn’t this 250 step 1 cutoff hurt the DO students as well?

And, after 2020, will *all* DO students have to take step 1? Something I haven’t really understood.

Nah if you’re over the COMLEX cutoff they’ll look at you. We had an EM program director of a former AOA program that converted to ACGMe talk to our EM club. They said bc of the merger they have a 500 COMLEX and 230 usmle cutoff. But he said as long as you’re over the COMLEX cutoff you’re good.

 

[OddNath]

Nah if you’re over the COMLEX cutoff they’ll look at you. We had an EM program director of a former AOA program that converted to ACGMe talk to our EM club. They said bc of the merger they have a 500 COMLEX and 230 usmle cutoff. But he said as long as you’re over the COMLEX cutoff you’re good.

Ah I see. Then, in their announcement, they should probably make clear that it’s a COMLEX 420 *or* step 1 250– currently it says “and,” which would imply that the DOs who had taken step 1 would be disqualified by a score < 250, which would defeat the entire purpose of this effort.

 

[nimbus]

Except other old AOA programs are doing similar things.

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I think all those programs are off the radar of most USMDs.